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Mayer Brown launches multifaceted COVID-19 support platformMayer Brown has launched a COVID-19 web portal, blog and Global Traveler Navigator tool. Our COVID-19 Global Response Team is closely monitoring the situation worldwide and is equipped to respond rapidly to client inquiries while providing holistic and practical guidance to novel questions arising from the impact of the coronavirus.
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Managing Your Capital: A Practical Guide for Issuers and Borrowers Facing Economic UncertaintyThe current market environment, created by the global COVID-19 pandemic, has few parallels. During periods of economic uncertainty, many issuers and borrowers face significant and difficult issues in managing their capital structure. The purpose of this guide is to provide issuers and borrowers with practical guidance to control proactively their capital structure.
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Competition Tribunal Sheds Light on How Calculation of Pecuniary Penalties was DoneOn 29 April 2020, Hong Kong’s Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) handed down its first judgment (Judgment) on pecuniary penalties against 10 construction and engineering contractors (Respondents). This decision follows the judgment it handed down on 17 May 2019, which found that all 10 Respondents contravened the First Conduct Rule of the Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619) (Ordinance) by engaging in market sharing and price fixing in providing renovation services at Phase 1 of On Tat Estate, a public rental housing estate in Kwun Tong, Kowloon.
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May 272020Despite recent economic, public health and geopolitical challenges, Asia companies with a long-term global vision can benefit from US expansion through organic growth and collaboration with US parties. The United States remains an attractive market for Asia companies to develop new partners, markets, products, and innovation. In addition, certain US parties are seeking Asia partners to grow their businesses and would welcome an Asia company’s investment and collaboration. This is especially true to the extent the initiative would help grow the US business in the US market and, through cooperative efforts with the Asia partner, enable a US company to expand its products and services in Asia markets.
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May 262020We have compiled the following chronology table which serves as a quick reference point to track the circulars and guidance published by HK financial services regulators in relation to COVID-19. We will update the table regularly. Kindly note that the table is not intended to capture all regulatory publications on an exhaustive basis
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May 262020Europe Daily News, the latest policy and legal developments in the European Union